Manager, Engineering – Payments

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential fintech organization that is building critical payment infrastructure for cross-border settlements and financial institution connectivity. Our talent team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead backend systems development for payment orchestration, bulk processing, and financial institution integrations at scale.

This is a leadership role based in India with regular collaboration across US time zones. You'll be accountable for the delivery, reliability, and financial correctness of systems that move customer funds while developing a high-performing engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of an engineering team, including planning, prioritization, delivery, and continuous improvement of team processes
• Provide technical and architectural direction for payment orchestration, ledger and reconciliation systems, and bank or payment service provider integrations handling high transaction volumes
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Solutions Engineering to define roadmaps and deliver cross-border payouts and bulk payment capabilities
• Own engineering delivery for key payments initiatives, including regulated and managed payments expansion, while coordinating effectively across India- and US-based teams
• Ensure the reliability, security, operational readiness, and financial correctness of payment-critical systems, including incident response and on-call practices
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while owning performance management, career development, feedback, and promotion processes for direct reports
• Drive engineering goals aligned to business outcomes, including geographic expansion, transaction growth, customer experience, and reliable market launches

What We're Looking For

Core Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed, highly available backend systems in production environments
• Experience building or operating payments, banking, or financial transaction systems such as payment orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, or settlement
• Strong hands-on technical leadership skills, including architecture reviews, system design, technical trade-off discussions, and code-level guidance
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, or Kotlin
• Experience recruiting, coaching, developing, and performance-managing engineers, including senior-level individual contributors
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and ability to partner effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, and external financial partners
• Availability for regular working-hour overlap with US-based teams to support effective cross-time-zone collaboration

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cross-border payments, correspondent banking, blockchain-based settlement rails, or integrations with banks and payment service providers
• Familiarity with financial compliance concepts such as KYC/KYB, Travel Rule requirements, transaction monitoring, and regulated payments environments

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening to understand your background and alignment with this role. If there's a strong match, we will submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client organization directly—all communication and coordination will be managed through our team to ensure the best outcome for your application.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

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